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Review: 'Lawrie, David'
'Dorothea’s Boat'   

-  Album: 'Dorothea’s Boat' -  Label: 'Ishikawa Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '9th May 2015'

Our Rating:
David Lawrie himself claims to have ‘filled Dorothea’s Boat with layers upon layers of found sounds, intricately interlaced with delicate zithers, unusual percussion and thunderous production aesthetics,’ and he’d be right.

The multi-layered vocals dominate the album, but this is a far cry from The Flying Pickets, with Lawrie incorporating a wealth of unusual instruments from brooding strings to xylophone tones and electronic harps in the luscious sonic backdrops that surge and swell, loop and interloop.

From the rich choral tones that herald the arrival of the album to the spacious sonic tonic of ‘Over, Under’, via the urgent electro clatter of ‘The Serpent and Her Fangs’ and the wide-eyed folk strum of ‘Traffic Lights at Night’, Lawrie creates music that has a freshness and a certain joy about it.

Chunky beats and a beefy bass drive the new-world groove of ‘Dorothea’, an expansive and uplifting song, while ‘Bromine’ ventures into ambient territory. Rhythmically, Lawrie draws on a vast array of world music, but without being Paul Simon about it.

The end result is a percussion-led album that’s inventive, innovative and accomplished.

David Lawrie Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Lawrie, David - Dorothea’s Boat